Tara’s Thinly Sliced 9% Edam Cheese + Coupons

טרה גבינה צהובה אדם דק דק

Tara Dairy took a page out of the cold cut meat company’s book (over the past year or so all three local, major cold cut companies came out with a very thinly sliced cold cuts/deli meats line) Tara translated that to their yellow cheeses and now have a “Dak Dak” = very thinly sliced line of cheeses.

The Tara Dak Dak cheeses are available in 28% fat, 22% fat and 9% fat Edam cheese. I decided to try the low 9% fat one.

For starters I thought the packaging was wonderful. Not only does it tell you on the label how may slices you are getting, 14 in this case, but the packaging is actually re-closable in a very neat and convenient way. Yes other yellow cheeses have a re-closeable lid but something about the way this lid fits in the base, kind of like 2 puzzle pieces being clicked into each other, seemed neat and clean to me. I liked that.

(Update: the next day when I wanted to get another slice to see how well this cheese melted *, when I reopened the packing I realized it was not closed as well as I thought it was. The hard plastic packages other yellow cheese come in close back up much better than this did. Those other containers most likely keep the cheese fresher for a longer time. So although I though this packaging was neat I do not think it’s as good as I first thought it was.)

Just looking at the sliced cheese, before I even tasted it, I thought it looked too shiny and plastic-like. That’s always the issue I have with low fat yellow cheeses, they taste more like plastic than cheese. Somehow I was hoping that would not be the case in this situation but no such luck. I should say it wasn’t as rubbery as other low fat hard yellow cheese I’ve tasted; there were some that were not edible in my opinion, this one wasn’t that bad. I did pick up on the Edam flavor in the cheese but it was still too plastic tasting for my liking.

*I wanted to see how well it melted so I put a quarter of a slice on a small bit of challah bread ,I added some tomato as well, and popped it in the microwave for a few seconds. Yes it melted quite quickly but it became even more rubbery and much more difficult to eat. This is not a good cheese for melting; I liked it even less after it was melted.  

I did like the thinner slices and thought that was a nice touch. I do think it helped cut down on how rubbery the 9% cheese was (not melted). My assumption is that the 22% and 28% fat cheeses cut this thinly would make the cheese much more enjoyable than their thicker sliced counterparts.

For the sake of giving you more than one opinion I will add that I read a Hebrew review online for these cheeses, that blogger did not agree with me about the plastic-like taste. She was given both the 28% and the 9% cheeses to try, and although she thought the 28% cheese was tastier, more flavorful and richer she really liked the 9% one as well. She did not think it was too rubbery or plastic-like. So it’s possible it will not bother some of you as much as it will bother others.

Bottom Line: I really liked that the cheese was sliced so thinly. I thought it helped the low fat cheese from being way too overly rubbery but although I smelled and tasted the Edam flavor in the cheese at the end of the day it was still too plastic-like for me, melting it on some bread was a fail too. I didn’t enjoy this Tara Thinly Sliced 9% Edam Cheese enough to buy it again in the future.

 

14 slices 200 grams -12.90NIS

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Update: I found a coupon for this cheese. I will add it to the post here but I don't really think this cheese is worth buying, even at a discounted price. I was not the only one who did not like this cheese you can read in the comments this cheese was also a major fail for Nesya (who reads this blog) and tried the cheese as well. But in case you want to try it for yourself here is the coupon.

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I also found a coupon for the 28% thin cheese . 

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I didn't try this one but I would think it should be a more successful product than the 9% cheese. 

Both coupons are usable at 
Shufersal Sheli, Shufersal Deal, Yesh, Tiv Ta'am
and other major stores that may accept them

 The coupons expire 30-6-12

 Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.